Falling Into Doubt — CLIP FIVE “And God Said, “Billy!”

Here is CLIP FIVE of my reading from And God Said, “Billy!” During the 17 years I’ve been working on And God Said, “Billy!”I’ve written and published many books, including the NY Times bestseller Keeping Faithand my memoir Crazy For God. But I could never let Billy! go. Now Billy! is almost out. It will be published by Sept 15. Here is the fifth of 12 clips of me reading from it.

When all the clips they’re all posted I’ll post them again in one bunch: Clips 1 through 12. Please help me out and pass the word…

Advance praise for AND GOD SAID, “BILLY!”

“I love this novel. AND GOD SAID, “BILLY!” is laugh-out loud funny from page one. It’s downright insightful throughout and takes readers deep into the shallow psyche of a sincere Charismatic-Evangelical whose God fails him. That failure turns out, through a hilarious series of tragic-comic reversals, to be – let’s just say something close to miraculous.” — Brian D. McLaren (author/speaker/blogger)

“And God Said, ‘Billy!’ is honest, very funny and very serious. It’s sure to rankle those who believe that being human means being certain.” — Kevin Miller (director of Hellbound?)

Clip Five

Here’s a summary of my new novel, and work of humor: And God Said, “Billy!” is a darkly comic coming-of-age story. The story is set in the 1980s and is about Billy, a young fundamentalist Christian who feels called to go to Hollywood to make “God’s movie.” But everything goes off the rails when he accepts a job to direct a soft-porn slasher/exploitation film in apartheid-era South Africa. He makes this “It’s a deal not a movie” picture even though he has to bust the US entertainment industry’s anti-apartheid sanctions in hopes his “worldly movie” will be “used by God” as a “stepping stone” to making his own divinely sanctioned “End Times” picture. Billy loses his fundamentalist faith, his film career, his family and more but he finds a strange kind of peace in a most unexpected place…

Frank Schaeffer is an American author, film director, screenwriter and public speaker. He is the son of the late theologian and author Francis Schaeffer. He became a Hollywood film director and author, writing several internationally acclaimed novels including And God Said, "Billy!" as well as the Calvin Becker Trilogy depicting life in a fundamentalist mission home-- Portofino, Zermatt, and Saving Grandma.

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